British Army in India during the First World Warby Peter Charlesworth Collection

Photographs by Edward Fitzgerald Charlesworth. In 1915, Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald Charlesworth, a Territorial Army volunteer, was sent with his regiment to India at the outbreak of the Great War. E.F. Charlesworth recorded much of what he saw from the moment he boarded the ship in Southampton. His camera documented the lives of British soldiers in India, their families, the local population, landscapes and landmarks.